Re: Summary: dpkg shared / reference counted files and version match
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > It could be a source of subtle bugs if this leads to having
> > libfoo:i386 (1.0) + libfoo:amd64 (2.0) + libfoo-data:all (2.0)
> >
> > But then the proper answer is for the maintainer to put
> > a tight dependency “Depends: libfoo-data (= ${source:Version})”.
>
> Err, that's heavily frowned because it breaks binNMUs if libfoo-data is
> arch:all, so we must decide on what the best way to deal with it is, and
> update best practice and policy accordingly.
Yikes, never mind. ${source:version} exists exactly to avoid the above
problem. Sorry about this.
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Henrique Holschuh
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